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WWWearthFebruary 8, 2017

What does it mean to be “practice ready” after law school these days?  Ask yourself: what industry is responsible for most of the transactions, litigation, hiring, innovating, issue-creating, precedent-setting, legislation-enacting — you name it?  The tech industry.  And what are we focusing on in law school?  Not enough of it.  Technology and scientific enterprise are the future.  Not what the past perceived as the forever present.  That means future lawyers must understand what most clients are envisioning and developing: and it’s not the Rule Against Perpetuities.  Also, newly-minted attorneys should be required to understand the technology that is infiltrating their own firms.  If they understand it and how to use it to their advantage, they will likely stay ahead of it.  Law schools need to not just think ahead but be ahead.  As noted by Gabrielle Orum Hernandez, “[s]ome law school programs have partnered with technology vendors to get students both technologically prepared for careers in law and thinking about ways they can use technology to boost efficiency and workflow in practice.”  Colorado Law School’s Philip Weiser adds, “while many law schools hope to be forward-looking, they rarely change traditional learning methods without a push…”   ASU’s Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law‘s Center for Law, Science & Innovation realized this over 30 years ago.  As the oldest, most established Center dedicated to addressing the present and future, it offers the latest in curriculum, workshops, independent study and conferences to make its students practice ready.  Read more here.